No secrets at Bristol 2
I am surprised that you did not refer to any of the research that provides a justification for Bristol's admission policies. Perhaps the best study to date was carried out by the Higher Education...
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Degree of accuracy
The reference to the Archbishop of Canterbury's degree-awarding powers being granted by the Pope is misleading ("Anointed to lead flock to study", February 4). The powers were transferred from the...
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Profit of the protocol
Bjorn Lomborg's argument that it is wasteful to spend money implementing the Kyoto Protocol is flawed because it inappropriately uses cost-benefit analysis ("$50 billion: how would you spend it?",...
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A wider debate
Rashid Khalidi accuses Campus Watch of trying to limit debate on Israel ("We have our eye on you... so watch out", January 28). Our criticism is that to listen to Khalidi you would think there are no...
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Access issues 1
Sam Freedman maintains that our finding that 3,000 suitably qualified state-school pupils don't attend our leading universities each year is a myth (Soapbox, February 4). We stand by our conclusions...
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Access issues 2
The Higher Education Funding Council for England report on participation is old, false, trivial and unethical (Access supplement, January 21). We already knew that participation varies with time,...
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Save our service
I am writing to express the deep concerns of the library profession in Wales about the proposal to abolish nine out of 13 library posts at the University of Wales, Bangor. If implemented, it will...
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Small treasures up for grabs (no pirates, please)
Top-up fees will complicate life for students and the charities that provide grants. Information on the new regime and on managing finances is vital, says Harriet Swain It used to be so simple for...
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Truly inglorious end to Britain's 'dark, gritty and nasty' days of Empire in Kenya
David Anderson's research into the Mau Mau uprising suggests the end of the British Empire was far from orderly. Huw Richards reports David Anderson points out that "war is a process, not an event....
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Inviting a kindred spirit into a room of one's own 1
When a Derby lecturer and an Oxford don shadowed each other for the day, the chief revelation was how much common ground they shared Mary McNally, lecturer in culture and environment at Derby, makes...
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Inviting a kindred spirit into a room of one's own 2
When a Derby lecturer and an Oxford don shadowed each other for the day, the chief revelation was how much common ground they shared Ros Ballaster, college and university fellow in English literature...
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A nation tenderly traces the scars that never fade
Criticism of Holocaust Memorial Day misses the point, says David Cesarani. Penetrating the patriotic pomp and platitudes was the British people's respect and remembrance of those whom the Nazis...
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Today's news
Birth of merged union 'will be painful' Plans for a single union representing all lecturers and academic support staff in higher and further education took a step closer today as officials announced...
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Questions for Debate by the Council on Competitiveness for Growth and Employment (link)
Brussels, 09 Feb 2005 Full text of Document 6104/05 Suite of documents 6104/05 Delegations will find attached a set of questions which are intended to guide the debate by the Council on Heading 1a) (...
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Scientific Committee on Emerging and Newly Identified Health Risks - Request for opinion on the appropriateness of existing methodologies to assess the potential risks from engineered and adventitious
Brussels, 09 Feb 2005 Full text [...] 2 Terms of reference The scientific committee is requested to answer the following questions, in each case, considering the different kinds of nanotechnologies...